Streams To Spiders: How Aquatic Insects Interconnect Our Ecosystems

When:
27 March 2023 @ 19:00 – 20:00
2023-03-27T19:00:00+01:00
2023-03-27T20:00:00+01:00
Where:
United–Kingdom

FREE live webinar with Liam Nash

Freshwaters and forests might seem like definitively separate habitats, but they are in fact tightly interconnected by insects. These insects, such as mayflies, dragonflies and mosquitoes, develop in water but emerge onto land as winged adults, with a powerful impact on the surrounding landscape. Some feed birds, bats, lizards and spiders, others transfer microplastics and heavy metals out of rivers and others form swarms so large they are picked up by weather satellites. This talk will delve into how these largely overlooked insects create an interconnected world in ways we don’t always expect.

Liam Nash is a 4th year NERC PhD student primarily based at Queen Mary, University of London in collaboration with ZSL and the University of Campinas. He specialises in community and conservation ecology and have worked with all kinds of invertebrates in Brazil and across the UK.

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